HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1 Release Notes HP-UX 11i v3 HP Part Number: 5900-0034 Published: November 2009 Edition: 1.
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Table of Contents 1 HP Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) 5.0.1 Release Notes...........................5 Overview.................................................................................................................................................5 New Features..........................................................................................................................................5 System Requirements...............................................................................
List of Tables 1-1 1-2 1-3 4 Supported Oracle and HP-UX Combinations.................................................................................6 Storage Management for Oracle Bundle.........................................................................................7 Features enabled by the SMO licenses............................................................................................
1 HP Storage Management for Oracle (SMO) 5.0.1 Release Notes This chapter discusses new features, licenses, system requirements, compatibility with previous releases, and known problems with HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1 which is supported on systems running HP-UX 11i v3.
— — • Quick I/O Veritas Extension for Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) Supported features for HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC and Integrity Operating Systems For HP-UX 11i v3 PA-RISC and Integrity operating systems, the following features of Storage Foundation for Databases are supported in this release: — Storage Foundation for Oracle features Following is a list of Storage Foundation for Oracle features on Oracle 11g, in addition to the existing features: ◦ ◦ ◦ — Tiered storage for databases (DBDST) for RAC Support fo
Most of these patches are available in the Feature11i bundle that you can download from the following location: http://h20293.www2.hp.com/ Search for Veritas 5.0.1 in this location and follow the onscreen instructions. WARNING! Install all the latest required HP-UX patches before you install Storage Management for Oracle, Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability Solutions, or Storage Foundation Cluster File System.
Table 1-3 Features enabled by the SMO licenses. (continued) Feature SMO Standard T2789DB File Change Log • Logs file system activity for fast incremental backup and auditing Yes Online FileSystem Operations (fsadm) • File system resize • File system defragmentation • Single file or directory defragmentation • File System intent log resize Yes DMAPI – A VxFS interface that enables Hierarchical Storage Management Yes (HSM) also known as XDSM.
Table 1-3 Features enabled by the SMO licenses. (continued) Feature SMO Standard T2789DB Portable Data Containers (Cross Platform Data sharing) – Easily and quickly converts data for use on different operating systems. Makes it easy to migrate to new operating systems Yes Site Awareness or Remote Mirroring (New with SF Ent/SFO Ent, SFCFS No and Storage Foundation Real Application Cluster (SFRAC) in 5.
• • Java GUI interface for all Storage Foundation for Oracle features Mapping-related functions, such as ORAMAP, vxstorage_stats, and dbed_analyzer, for all versions of Oracle Limitations of HP Storage Management for Oracle Following are the limitations of HP Storage Management for Oracle 5.0.1: • The qiomkfile and odmmkfile commands must be run as a privileged user The qiomkfile and odmmkfile commands must be run as a privileged user.
— DBDST class names limited to 29 characters The dbdst_admin -o rmclass command fails when attempting to remove a class name of 30 characters or more. The maximum class name length is 29 characters. — Selected utilities require setuid Certain HP Storage Management for Oracle programs are setuid binaries because they are meant to be run as a database administrator and the APIs used are root access-only internal APIs. The affected binaries are used mainly for information query purposes.
There is no workaround for this issue. While entering authentication passwords, do not use any of the special characters listed previously. • Problem Uninstallling the VRTSmapro (mapping provider) package does not remove the corresponding entry from the VEA registry. Workaround Run the following command before uninstalling the VRTSmapro package: # /opt/VRTSmapro/bin/vxmapping_prov.config -r This command removes the VEA registry entry.
reverse_resync_begin dbed_vmsnap started at 2007-12-28 12:02:42 SFORA dbed_vmsnap WARNING V-81-5725 After reverse_resync_commit is performed, you need to recreate the Authentication Password File using the ORAPWD utility. SFORA dbed_vmsnap ERROR V-81-4882 An error occurred while reconfiguring Oracle instance 'sfora'. SFORA dbed_vmsnap ERROR V-81-4881 Log file is at /tmp/dbed_vmclonedb.12313/nomount.log. SFORA dbed_vmsnap ERROR V-81-4918 Database sfora has not been correctly recovered.
Do not use the pre-existing tempfile. Instead, you can either obtain a backup of tempfile with the remaining database, or remove the tempfile and then re-create a new tempfile when the database is open. • Veritas DBMS cannot distinguish between hosts with long hostnames If two hostnames are more than 8 characters long and the first 8 characters are identical, the VxDBMS cannot distinguish between them.
